I don't know if it's cool to share this here, but I wanted to in case
someone else wanted to do the same, and have them save all in the same
place:

(defvar my-shell-auto-save-directory
    (expand-file-name "~/tmp/shell-auto-saves/"))

;; Make sure it exists, this is an important directory:
(make-directory my-shell-auto-save-directory t)

(defvar my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix
    (let ((s (system-name)))
      (when (string-match "\\(.*\\)\\.franz\\.com$" s)
(setq s (substring s (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))
      (format "%s-" s)))

(defun my-make-shell-auto-save-file-name ()
  (interactive) ;; debugging only
  (let* ((name (buffer-name))
base suffix)
    (when (string-match "^\\*\\(.*\\)\\*\\(<\\(.*\\)>\\)?$" name)
      (setq base (match-string 1 name))
      (setq suffix (match-string 3 name))
      (if suffix
  (format "%s%s%s-%s.log" my-shell-auto-save-directory
   my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix
   base suffix)
(format "%s%s%s.log" my-shell-auto-save-directory
my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix base)))))

(defun my--around-advice--make-auto-save-file-name (orig-func)
  (let (fn)
    (cond
     ((and (null buffer-file-name)
   (or (eq 'ssh-mode major-mode) (eq 'shell-mode major-mode))
   (setq fn (my-make-shell-auto-save-file-name)))
      fn)
     (t (funcall orig-func)))))

(advice-add 'make-auto-save-file-name
    :around
    #'my--around-advice--make-auto-save-file-name)

;; Now, make sure auto-save-mode is on, for shell and ssh buffers:

(defun my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook ()
  (auto-save-mode 1))

(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook t)
(add-hook 'ssh-mode-hook 'my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook t)


On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Kevin Layer <layer@known.net> wrote:

> OK, the file was created after the auto-save-interval.  Thanks, I'll think
> about whether this is good enough.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mär 27 2018, Kevin Layer <layer@known.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Any ideas on this?  I'm willing to do some work to add it, if it's not
>> too
>> > hard.
>>
>> Just enable auto-save-mode.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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>> "And now for something completely different."
>>
>
>